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soft focus

soft focus noun: the blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.

Noun

soft focus (uncountable)

  1. The blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.
    • Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.2016 November 25, “Photographer David Hamilton found dead in Paris”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about soft focus

What does soft focus mean?
Soft focus means the blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.
What part of speech is soft focus?
Soft focus is a noun.

Words near soft focus in the dictionary

  1. soft errors
  2. soft flimsies
  3. soft flimsy
  4. soft float
  5. soft floats
  6. soft focus
  7. soft fork
  8. soft forks
  9. soft fox sedge
  10. soft fruit
  11. soft fruits

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